Darryl's Starview Plants

Darryl's Starview Plants Offering perennial flowering plants, herbs, shrubs and trees grown with love to beautify your landscape.

04/11/2026

I'm planning to start selling perennials again next week.
The weather has made it difficult to get started but the plants are growing so I'm planning to get my ads on marketplace and start making appointments. Message me and make an appointment. The forsythias are blooming in their pots. I also have hosta, Lady's Mantle, Red Cloud Spiderwort, Yellow Spotted Loosestrife, Columbine, Yellow Ribbon Arbor Vitae 2 types of lilacs, 3 types of echinacea,Windy City Alliums and many,many more. Hope to see you next week!🌿🌿❤️

03/21/2026

My winter sowing turned out to be 34 jugs of various sizes (I used a few OJ bottles and some half gallons). I wasn't going to plant so many but it's hard to stop when you have a multitude of seeds because you have a seed buying addiction like I do! Hopefully with the weather warming some there will be some sprouting soon. I planted a few herbs, lots of flowers, both annuals and perennials, and a few vegetables.
I get so excited when things start to grow in the spring. Many of my perennials have already started growing in their pots at Darryl's Starview Plants so will be ready for sale soon. I am filled with gratitude when I go outside and just hear the birds singing again and see everything greening up after such a long snowy winter! Hope to see many of you soon!

As I looked out my backdoor at the blizzard this morning, I have been thinking about starting my perennials with winter ...
01/26/2026

As I looked out my backdoor at the blizzard this morning, I have been thinking about starting my perennials with winter sowing again this year. Snow on the ground, seeds in their little jugs. That’s winter sowing! It is nature’s way of starting plants—no heat mats, no fuss, just some milk jugs, dirt, and labels will yield strong, hardy seedlings come spring. I’ll have plenty ready for your garden. Coneflowers, Black-eyed Susan, Liatris, Yarrow, Milkw**d, Joe Pye W**d & more beautiful perennial starts. Hardy plants for tough Michigan weather and I think you will agree that this winter has been especially tough! I am focusing on more native plants for attracting pollinators this spring. I hope to see you stopping by Darryl’s Starview Plants.

I know I usually post about plants but this afternoon we looked out out back door and saw this little fellow munching on...
09/26/2025

I know I usually post about plants but this afternoon we looked out out back door and saw this little fellow munching on some grass in our back yard. At first we were puzzled and thought it was a white cat, but after taking a second look, it was an albino groundhog. According to an internet wildlife site the chances of seeing one is about 1 in 10,000. We feel very special to see this animal even if it's a groundhog! The miracles of nature are all around us if we just look!

09/12/2025

Plant now for spring beauty to attract our wonderful pollinators:
Autumn bride Coral Bells (white flowers on tall stems blooming now in Sept.)
Dianthus 'Neon Star',
Pycnanthemum muticum clustered mountain mint,
Nepeta 'Kit Cat'(sold out)
Monarda 'purple rooster'
Phlox p. 'Laura'
Stachys officinalis Betony 'Hummelo' , and
Siberian Iris 'Caesar's Brother' all $8 each
Also attract insect pollinators and hummingbirds to your garden with Cone flowers, purple, white swan, Alan's Pride, Paradisio SuperDuper and Pow Wow, Lavender Bergamot, Anise Hyssop, Blue Hyssop, Bee balm Panorama Mix, Goatsbeard, Joe Pye W**d, and much more. $5-$8
Darryl's Starview Plants
Edwardsburg, MI
By appointment please. Bring your old pots along. I will gladly recycle them for you!
Local pick up only, I do not ship.

08/06/2025

This is a little update on what is available right now at Darryl's Starview Plants. I hope you can come by and stock up on perennials to plant this fall so I don't have to store them over winter which is just around the corner.
Please call or text for an appointment to stop by and check out my many plants, herbs, bushes, perennials and more.
Looking forward to seeing you. Prices are great! Used pots to recycle? Bring them along. I always need pots!
Forsythia bushes, $10 Kumson Forsythia, variegated, beautiful yellow spring blooms $10,
Attract pollinators with:
Clustered mountain Mint (2025 pollinator perennial of the year) blooming now $8
Neon Star Dianthus $8
Betony Hummel $8
New-Autumn Bride Heuchera $8, Firefly Heuchera $8 Purple Palace Heuchera (coral bells) $8
White Swan $8 and Purple Cone Flowers $5
Monarda (red bee balm) $5, Panorama bee balm $8, Chives $5, Garlic chives $5, Lemon Balm $5, Chocolate mint $5, Orange Mint $5, Peppermint $5, Hot and Spicy Oregano $5, Thyme $5, Chamomile $5, Rue $5
Blue Hyssop $5, Anise Hyssop $5
Joe Pye W**d $8, Goats Beard $8
Lavender Bergamot $5 Johnson Blue Perennial Geranium $5
Sedum $4
Tall Pink Sedum budded out and ready to bloom $5
Day Lilies
Chicago Apache (red) $8, Miss Mary Mary (yellow ), $8 Purple stella d'oro $8 all rebloomers. I also have a few untagged surprises! $8
Hosta: Green and Variegated Hosta $8 Wolverine $8 Fragrant Bouquet $8 Guacamole $8 and different varieties all the time.
Norway Spruce $12
Tardiva Panicle Hydrangea $12
Pink Diamond Hydrangea $12
P*e Gee Hydrangea $12
AND MANY MORE.

07/05/2025

🪤✨ Simple Trick to Trap Earwigs in Your Garden!

If you’ve noticed earwigs munching on your plants at night, here’s an easy, chemical-free way to catch them:

🥣 What you’ll need:

1/2 cup of vegetable oil

A few splashes of soy sauce

A small cup or container

📌 How to do it:
1️⃣ Mix the vegetable oil and soy sauce in the cup.
2️⃣ Bury the cup in the soil almost up to the rim.
3️⃣ Leave the trap out overnight — earwigs are attracted to the smell and will fall in.
4️⃣ Check your traps in the morning and empty them as needed.
💧 If you use sprinklers, cover the traps so they don’t fill with water.

👌 Result:
Earwigs get trapped without harming your plants — no harsh chemicals, just a clever, natural solution for a healthier garden! 🌿✨

07/04/2025

DARRYL'S STARVIEW PLANTS is open for summer. Make an appointment and come see my many new selections as well as old favorites! Send me a message with a time to stop by and check things out!!
I will also be glad to accept all those used pots sitting around in your garage!
New: Piilu Clematis (Little Duckling) and Prince Charles $11
Perennial Pollinator attracting plants: Purple Rooster bee balm, Panorama mix Bee Balm, Clustered Mountain Mint, Kit Cat Nepeta, Autumn Bride Coral Bells, Betony, 3 types of Phlox, Neon Star Dianthus $8.
the following are only $5:
Red Monarda (bee balm), Wild (Lavender) Bergamot , Chives, Garlic Chives, Lemon balm, Anise and Blue Hyssop, Silver Artemisia , Basil, Hot and Spicy Oregano, Parsley, Chamomile (only 2 left), Peppermint, Chocolate mint, Snow on the Mountain, Red Hens & Chicks, Tall Pink Sedum, Orange Stonecrop Sedum ground cover, and more.
Also:
Glory Speedwell, Purple lilac, White Swan Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Country Girl perennial mums and more $8
Hosta: dark green and variegated $8 Wolverine Hosta, Fragrant Bouquet, Guacamole, Autumn Moon, and more! $8
DAYLILIES ARE BEGINNING TO BLOOM!
Several varieties including purple d'oro,
Hyperion, Miss Mary Mary, Chicago Apache and more $8
Hydrangea, blooming now Mock Orange bushes, Forsythia and Kumson forsythia, Gray P***y willow, Curley Willow trees, Dwarf Alberta Spruce, and more. $12
Beautiful perennial plants, shrubs, trees and more at reasonable prices.
Darryl's Starview Plants, Edwardsburg, MI.
Here is a short bee movie on the Purple Rooster Monarda. If you want to attract pollinators to your garden this is a great plant!

06/28/2025

The beautiful pollinator plants are beginning to bloom at Darryl's Starview Plants. The bees are buzzing and the butterflies are fluttering around them. It's time to put some in your pollinator garden and help their beauty to continue. Send a message to let me know when you can stop in and get some for yourself.

WE'RE HAVING A HEAT WAVE AND SO ARE YOUR FLOWERS AND GARDEN!It's summer and most of us love the sun but, when the temper...
06/23/2025

WE'RE HAVING A HEAT WAVE AND SO ARE YOUR FLOWERS AND GARDEN!
It's summer and most of us love the sun but, when the temperatures rise, your flowers can sustain serious and sometimes fatal damage from it. Here are a few tips to help them survive.
1. First and most important is WATER!
Water deeply and more often than usual.
It may be a good idea to water in the early morning before it's too sunny or in the late evening when the sun is less strong to decrease evaporation.
If you have plants in pots like I do, especially if some are small or seedlings, you may even need to water more than once a day. (Can you guess where I have been spending my time this week?)
2. Provide some SHADE if possible. You can use an old sheet to lay above for protection from the suns rays or a shade cloth is also a good alternative. Be sure that there is room for air to circulate above the plants so they don't cook or suffocate. You can use poles, PVC pipe or whatever you have handy to hold it above plant level.
Even an umbrella can be used for a small area.
If you have pots you can move them temporarily to the shade.
3. MULCH will be helpful. It retains moisture to the roots and cools the soil beneath somewhat, thus decreasing plant stress. It also provides protection from the sun for the plant roots. I am not advising you to go out in the 90 degree weather to mulch your plants but if you have done it already---Good for you! It could be a great plan for the future when we have some cooler days. It also is a w**d preventer and is attractive in your flower beds.
4. Protect your young trees trunks. especially fruit trees. Sun can cause the trunks of young trees to become sunburned. You can avoid this by wrapping the trunks with tree wrap paper or painting or white washing them. To white wash use a 1 to 1 mixture of interior white water based paint and water. Paint it on the trunk for protection.
Here are a few tips on what not to do in the heat wave.
1. This is NOT a good time to FERTILIZE. You may think this will help during this time of stress but actually may burn your plants due to the dry conditions.
2. This is not a good time to prune. Pruning signals the plant to grow which in the stress of the heat may cause it to fail or die.
3. This is not a good time to repot a plant or plant a potted plant in the ground. You have probably noticed that when you plant a flower from a pot into the ground it takes a week (or more) to start putting out new leaves. That is because this stresses the plant and it needs time to recover before it starts to grow again. The plant in severe heat is already stressed and may not be able to survive this further shock to its system Hold your plants in their pots until the weather cools down a bit and then put them in the ground and don't forget to give them plenty of water
Some signs of stress:
!. Wilting is a sign of low moisture. Some plants wilt in the middle of the day to conserve moisture, it is just their nature, so check the soil a couple of inches down and see if it needs water.
2. Rolled up leaves can be a sign of insect infestation or need of water. Again check the soil and if it's not dry check to see what is rolled up in those leaves.
3. Discolored leaves especially at the plant base. You can remove these leaves and you probably need to give your plant more water to reduce this stress.
4. Sunscald on upper leaves or on your vegetables appears as a white area due to direct rays of the sun. Give the plant some shade as described above and remove the leaves or scalded fruit. They will not survive and will expose your plant to the possibility of fungus or other diseases.
5. Plant has brown crunchy leaves with no green visible. You are probably too late to save this poor beauty. Pull it up and put it in your compost.
I hope this will be helpful to you. I hope to see you at Darryl's Starview Plants in Edwardsburg when it gets back to normal summer weather. Thanks for reading!

National Pollinator Week 2025 is celebrated from June 16 to June 22, focusing on the importance of pollinators in ecosys...
06/17/2025

National Pollinator Week 2025 is celebrated from June 16 to June 22, focusing on the importance of pollinators in ecosystems and agriculture. Your help to the pollinators can begin with just a few pollinator friendly plants in your yard. A manicured lawn is beautiful to look at in your neighborhood but deadly starvation to our bees and butterflies so important to our lives. Do your part and plant a couple. I have many new pollinator friendly plants at Darryl's Starview Plants. Only a few are pictured here. Come check them out and take some home to your butterflies and bees!

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